• demlet@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Completely unrelated to the post, but if you didn’t already know, “grok” is a Martian word made up by sci-fi author Robert Heinlein in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Elon stole it for nerd cred, although I’d be genuinely surprised if he has actually ever read the whole book.

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      2 hours ago

      oh like where a company named itself tesla after a weird and smart scientist and then elon bought that company and pretended like he was the king of manufacturing and all around science?